Yvette has been with LSIS (formerly CEL) for three years. A substantial part of her career has been spent in local government providing strategic HR support to councillors, senior management teams and front line services in social care and the community. She has worked at one of the more senior human resource levels of local government for the past twenty five years. She was responsible for advising on strategic issues, which includes, the production of comprehensive people development strategies for five local authority human resource departments.
She has considerable experience of both initiating and managing change within organisations, implementing the change processes, and reviewing the impact of change, as well as that of developing, implementing, and reviewing a wide range of employment policies, practices and procedures. Yvette has led on many success equality and diversity employment programmes in a number of local authorities.
Yvette’s aims are to contribute effectively to the sector’s development on equalities and diversity as well addresses the internal cultural and communication, organisational processes of LSIS. One of her successes is to ensure that diversity and equalities competencies for leadership are embedded into all of the LSIS programmes in order to support the wider sector employment strategies. The competencies were launched in March 2008. Her role is to advise and support LSIS’ wide-ranging programmes and develop an integrated approach to the equalities agenda ensuring that there are appropriate and relevant interventions at all levels of strategy and policy making in the further education sector, work based learning and adult learning sectors. Yvette is also now responsible for the performance and review for LSIS and measuring the impact of LSIS’ interventions on the sector.